Hosting quality

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Seems to get a bit slow at times - we have 3 moderately sized websites on the same plan, all database backed, and one site that is likely to get bigger again, so I'm looking around at better hosts - specifically virtual dedicated or cloud. Currently we are on a virtual shared host.

How's the laggishness for everyone else?

If the general consensus is 'too slow' it might be time to move to a plan with a bit more CPU. Bandwidth/disk space/database wise its fine but I think its starting to get touchy on the CPU side.

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Specifically looking at this plan, which is $US29 a month if you go via the M$ website and their websitespark plan. Which also happens to come with several thousand dollars of free software and a catch, but hey, I can deal with selling my soul to M$.

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The sites combined use about 4G of disk space, although a lot of that is logs, room for database dumps etc. The actual data is barely 1G, plus databases on top of that.

We're paying $USD46 a month for the new host. 30G disk space, 300G bandwidth, 1G ram. We'll see how long this plan holds us for. We 'only' use about 40G bandwidth each month but the sticking point is CPU.

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Obviously if you see a downtime message you're looking at the old site

Also upgraded IPB to the latest version which broke the green theme. The new host has very different settings so if anything doesn't work (at least ONE thing has broken on each site we moved) just let me know so it can get fixed.

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If I read all the items it goes to a "none found" screen but when a new post is made a couple of the others that I already read reappear in the list. Not sure how IPB does the unread check but I am assuming it is some kind of datestamp and query rather than persisted post marking and something is going screwy with the datestamps.

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How peculiar ... I usually just get the last day or so of new posts whether I've read them or not. It must have an edge case when you've read EVERYTHING that goes a bit weird. If it gets too annoying I'll add it to the Great List Of Bugs over on the IPB forums, but it sounds like the sort of thing they'd gloss over and do their best to ignore.

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How peculiar ... I usually just get the last day or so of new posts whether I've read them or not. It must have an edge case when you've read EVERYTHING that goes a bit weird. If it gets too annoying I'll add it to the Great List Of Bugs over on the IPB forums, but it sounds like the sort of thing they'd gloss over and do their best to ignore.

Further to this, the New Content shows a message "There are X new entries since Yesterday HH:NN". At the moment it is saying since 15:52 yesterday. I don't know why it would show that date time as I have been reading all morning and have the new content page refresh every 5 minutes anyway.